Cybersecurity Architect Contracts in London

Cybersecurity Architect
England > London

The median Cybersecurity Architect daily rate in London is £725 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 460 577
Rank change year-on-year +94 +117 -136
Contract jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Architect 27 39 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.14% 0.088%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.15% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 26 24
10th Percentile £500 £625 £600
25th Percentile £581 £666 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £700 £800
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -12.50% +29.29%
75th Percentile £825 £838 £900
90th Percentile - £881 -
England median daily rate £725 £700 £775
% change year-on-year +3.57% -9.68% +26.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,650 25,900 36,972
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.16% 95.31% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,044 18,722 26,970
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 298 455
10th Percentile £16.02 £17.99 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.63 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.78 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%

Cybersecurity Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Architect in London

Cybersecurity Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect in London.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity Architect in London

Cybersecurity Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect in London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cybersecurity Architect in London

Cybersecurity Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West London +13 3 £686 -1.96%
East London - 1 £770 -
Cybersecurity Architect
England

Cybersecurity Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Cybersecurity Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Cybersecurity Architect in the job title.

1 27 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (55.56%) Security Architecture
3 8 (29.63%) NIST
3 8 (29.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (25.93%) Azure
4 7 (25.93%) AWS
5 6 (22.22%) Network Security
5 6 (22.22%) CISSP
5 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
5 6 (22.22%) Business Strategy
6 5 (18.52%) Security Posture
6 5 (18.52%) Finance
6 5 (18.52%) CISM
6 5 (18.52%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (18.52%) Firewall
6 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (18.52%) Business Continuity
6 5 (18.52%) Data Protection
6 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
6 5 (18.52%) DevOps
7 4 (14.81%) GCP
7 4 (14.81%) Security Operations
7 4 (14.81%) DevSecOps
7 4 (14.81%) GDPR
7 4 (14.81%) PCI DSS
7 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
7 4 (14.81%) Management Information System
7 4 (14.81%) CISA
7 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
8 3 (11.11%) Operational Technology

Cybersecurity Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.70%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) AWS
1 7 (25.93%) Azure
2 4 (14.81%) GCP
3 3 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.70%) Akamai
4 1 (3.70%) IaaS
4 1 (3.70%) SaaS
4 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) Network Security
2 5 (18.52%) Firewall
3 3 (11.11%) TCP/IP
4 2 (7.41%) DNS
4 2 (7.41%) SSL
5 1 (3.70%) HTTP
5 1 (3.70%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Burp Suite
General
1 8 (29.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Finance
4 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) OAuth
1 2 (7.41%) OpenID
1 2 (7.41%) SAML
1 2 (7.41%) SPML
2 1 (3.70%) gRPC
2 1 (3.70%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Security Posture
2 4 (14.81%) Management Information System
3 3 (11.11%) Operational Technology
4 2 (7.41%) PKI
5 1 (3.70%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (3.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (3.70%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (3.70%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (3.70%) IoT
5 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.70%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (55.56%) Security Architecture
3 6 (22.22%) Business Strategy
4 5 (18.52%) Business Continuity
4 5 (18.52%) Data Protection
4 5 (18.52%) DevOps
4 5 (18.52%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (14.81%) DevSecOps
5 4 (14.81%) Security Operations
6 3 (11.11%) Business Continuity Planning
6 3 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (11.11%) Computer Science
6 3 (11.11%) Configuration Management
6 3 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
6 3 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (11.11%) Risk Management
6 3 (11.11%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 2 (7.41%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
1 1 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) CISSP
2 5 (18.52%) CISM
2 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
3 4 (14.81%) CISA
3 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (3.70%) CCNA
5 1 (3.70%) CCSK
5 1 (3.70%) CRISC
5 1 (3.70%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (3.70%) Degree
5 1 (3.70%) GIAC
5 1 (3.70%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (29.63%) NIST
2 4 (14.81%) GDPR
2 4 (14.81%) PCI DSS
3 3 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (3.70%) ISA99
4 1 (3.70%) NCSC
4 1 (3.70%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) Palo Alto
3 2 (7.41%) CA
4 1 (3.70%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.70%) F5
4 1 (3.70%) ForeScout
4 1 (3.70%) Google
4 1 (3.70%) Imperva
4 1 (3.70%) Qualys
4 1 (3.70%) Zscaler